Turtle Teacher Resources

Students use context clues to figure out the meaning of new vocabulary words in the story, One Tiny Turtle. In this language arts lesson, students listen to the story and raise their hands when they hear the new term used in the...

In this same or different worksheet, students examine 4 pictures of fruits and circle the fruit that is different. Next, students examine 4 pictures of dogs and put a square around the dog that is different. Then students examine 4...

Learners define the term region using semantic mapping, listen to the Dr. Seuss story Yertle the Turtle, and discuss the conflict over borders in the story. They draw a map divided into regions.

Students examine plant and animal life while looking at the environments the organismisms live in. They determine how form follows function by looking an aquatic turtle and noticing its feature of adaptation features. They work in groups...

Students play Kansas Symbols Bingo. In this Kansas history lesson, students review the 8 state symbols: buffalo, wheat, cottonwood tree, honeybee, meadowlark, salamander, sunflower, and turtle. Students then participate in a game of...

Sixth graders read the book CALL IT COURAGE by Armstrong Sperry. They use the Internet to research and work in groups to write ocean chants. They construct dioramas and build a sea turtle withK'NEX.

In this color me worksheet, young scholars color and illustrate four common pond creatures: red-bellied turtle, giant pond snail, American toad and pumpkin seed.

In this number 3 worksheet, learners color a picture of 3 turtles, then practice tracing the number 3.

Seventh graders identify the names and features of macroinvertebrates found in Turtle River.  In this ecology lesson students use digital microscopes and take pictures of invertebrates. 

In this printing letter t activity, 1st graders study the example lowercase letter t and then use the 4 provided lines to practice printing the letter.

If you carefully observe populations with short life cycles, you can observe natural selection happening. The video explains what natural selection is, how scientists theorized it, and how science proves the concept. It highlights the...

Our oceans are composed of many complex relationships. Young oceanographers explore relationships between organisms, understand the world ocean's currents, and discover the effects of water pollution and how it behaves. There are...

At over 450 pages, John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Grapes of Wrath can be a challenging choice for full-class, book circle, or independent reading. The activities in a 10-page sample The Grapes of Wrath...

Part of a set of fables, Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Eagle" is all about a tortoise that fulfills his dreams and dies in the process of completing them. The activity after the passage asks readers to write an argumentative response...

For many farmers displaced by the Great Depression and the droughts of the 1930s, California represented the American Dream: a place to find work, to establish a new life, and to provide for their families. The reality they found, as...

In this mini-book worksheet, students fill in the blanks in two sentences to tell what lays eggs. They see a model completed for them that shows the picture of a turtle, and the sentence, "A turtle lays eggs." They illustrate their...

In this sea turtle vocabulary skills instructional activity, students match the 10 listed terms to the appropriate sentences that describe each of them.

In this counting pictures activity, 1st graders count the number of turtles and then circle the corresponding number. Students then color the correct number and turtles.

In this printing worksheet, students write 2 lines of lower and uppercase T's. Students also form the words tub, towel, and turtle and color in a related illustration.

In this word search worksheet, students locate the names of pond life using the 18 pictures and labels that are shown on the page. They find the names of turtles, mammals, insects, and birds.

In this color me worksheet, pupils color and illustrate a fish, a bird, a sea creature and one forest animal: bluegill, Northern cardinal, painted turtle and red fox.

In this early childhood counting to 10 worksheet, students count 10 turtles shown on the worksheet and identify the appropriate number at the bottom of the page by coloring or circling it.

In this letter/picture/word worksheet, learners color in the pictures that begin with the letter T and cross out the 1 that does not. They see black and white outline pictures of item such as a table, toothbrush, turtle, and a tiger.

In this naming activity, learners write the names of 9 animals based on the cartoon like pictures that are shown. They name animals such as a cat, a dolphin, a dog, and a turtle.